They'd had a Turk in the area, Zack had been... tooling around town according to the reports, but Zack hadn't been the one they were keeping an eye on to be honest.
"Cloud, I don't make a habit of lying or breaking rules. Omitting information I don't see as necessary to pass on and skating through loopholes is a completely different matter." There was a tiny grin at that, diving through the gaps in the iron clad armor of ShinRa's fist was quite possibly the only reason he was actually still alive.
"We, the Turks, had been keeping an eye on you since the Modeoheim incident. Why do you think you kept being put on missions we were involved with, or ones that seemed all but hand picked for your particular skillsets? I can dig out our copy of your file if you'd like to read it sometime, it's a bit... thicker than the one the rest of the company had clearance for.
"Believe me when I tell you that you wouldn't have stayed an infantryman for long. The Turks recruit at seventeen, barring special circumstances."
He chuckled a little at the mention of the deceased President. "You missed a lot, Cloud. If President Shinra had lived much longer the company wouldn't have, it was crumbling into it's own rot. I'm sure Reeve could tell you stories of board meetings that were just idle posturing and I'm not exaggerating when I say that Clod Prod was the best of Scarlet's machines. SOLDIER was also...lacking, nearly half it's members that survived Wutai deserted with Genesis and the others were at the ends of their ropes as well.
"If Sephiroth leaves ShinRa, SOLDIER will follow it and the Turks wouldn't stand in his way. Especially if he's particularly good at timing, Heidigger's a moron who couldn't lead himself out of a wet paper bag, let alone an army."
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"Cloud, I don't make a habit of lying or breaking rules. Omitting information I don't see as necessary to pass on and skating through loopholes is a completely different matter." There was a tiny grin at that, diving through the gaps in the iron clad armor of ShinRa's fist was quite possibly the only reason he was actually still alive.
"We, the Turks, had been keeping an eye on you since the Modeoheim incident. Why do you think you kept being put on missions we were involved with, or ones that seemed all but hand picked for your particular skillsets? I can dig out our copy of your file if you'd like to read it sometime, it's a bit... thicker than the one the rest of the company had clearance for.
"Believe me when I tell you that you wouldn't have stayed an infantryman for long. The Turks recruit at seventeen, barring special circumstances."
He chuckled a little at the mention of the deceased President. "You missed a lot, Cloud. If President Shinra had lived much longer the company wouldn't have, it was crumbling into it's own rot. I'm sure Reeve could tell you stories of board meetings that were just idle posturing and I'm not exaggerating when I say that Clod Prod was the best of Scarlet's machines. SOLDIER was also...lacking, nearly half it's members that survived Wutai deserted with Genesis and the others were at the ends of their ropes as well.
"If Sephiroth leaves ShinRa, SOLDIER will follow it and the Turks wouldn't stand in his way. Especially if he's particularly good at timing, Heidigger's a moron who couldn't lead himself out of a wet paper bag, let alone an army."